Abstract
Key palaeontological sites throughout England are designated and protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest. This provides legislative protection against damage whether from threatening development or inappropriate fossil collecting. English Nature has established guidelines, outlined in this paper, on the management of site based fossil resources that reinforce the need for a responsible and sustainable approach. As with all aspects of fossil collecting commercial trade can be both negative and positive. The impact of this trade on the site resource is discussed particularly in the light of recent experience and initiatives in Dorset, on the Somerset Coast, in Humberside and Yorkshire. On balance the positive impact of commercial trade outweighs the negative - though this has very much relied on the co-operative willingness of the collector, researcher and museum.
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